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Flying back from Texas, I got a weird feeling as I watched where the earth and sky meet. So far up, the earth so much huger than it seems. As high as you get in a plane, you're still not high enough to see the actual roundness of the earth. The earth is just enormous. Later, when it became night, I saw the headlights of cars way down below traveling in what seemed like super slow motion, like white blood cells floating in black veins of the earth . It looked like a gigantic petri dish, in that it filled my vision, but at the same time it was dwarfed by my perspective; microscopic, radiated and x-rayed. I felt God-size, with all the black night and pin pricks of light feeling more like the expanse of my imagination than my peripheral vision. You know how flying disorients your time-space internalization.

Anyway, after really zoning out to this hugeness vibe for a good 3 hours, I started to really get a feeling for how large our galaxy is in comparison to the earth (almost from a "been there, done that" perspective as opposed to a very vague understanding). I could squeeze my brain to begin to capture just how large the whole universe is in it's never-endingness, and, ultimately, I came to this idea of Creationism again and I truly understood how unfathomably unrealistic it is to believe that God is as large as all of this and more and yet God chose to create the teensiest, tiniest microscopic little insignificant shits in the universe when he decided to create mankind. That doesn't even make sense. And, in this infinity of black, what could keep God's interest in this little speck of nonsense called "earth"? I mean, I didn't believe in creationism before, but now I *really* don't.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would like to mention that I did have the thought that, "Well, if the universe is never-ending, then what really *would* be "big enough" for me? No matter how large God would make us, it wouldn't seem large enough for me. Well, let's put it this way; there are a few very large things in the universe: planets, suns, black holes, galaxies, etc. According to the good books, we're the special creations, the ones who can think and act on our own desires and we are no bigger than a gnat's balls.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i really can't believe that this will be the last god post/point.

does size matter, really? if it's god creating things for his own interest, and god is everywhere and can see everything, then he might as well make small things as very large things.

― Maria, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last post from ME I meant, as in bringing up the topic. As far as size goes, we're some special creation, yet we are insignificant specks. Not to mention, God neglects to communicate with us. You'd think for being made in his image, we'd be bigger or able to communicate with him, at least.

― nude spock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

does size matter, really?

I've never had a problem.

Oh, we're talking about religion? Never mind...

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi N. Spock, God does communicate with us all the time. He communicates through nature. He has given us so many people to communicate with. we sometime don't want to hear. God gives us all blessings every day. The biggest problem is we are always trying to achieve everything by ourselves, whereas we should let God take over and handle what we can't do on our own. It really works if you say God, I can't handle this problem. Please lead me in the right direction. You will see a vast change in your life.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ya huh. Well, that certainly has worked for nobody I know who has done that very same thing, about 7 family members I can think of who are constantly at their "wits end", as my mom would say, about very many things. In fact, the only thing that seems to go their way is they manage to get to church. But, in their personal lives, they go through a Job-like amount of misfortune.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, okay, maybe you're right. I'm going to give it an honest shot. I'll let you know what happens. By the way, it sounds like what I already do, but rather than say, "God, tell me what to do" and wait for a sign, I usually trust my *feeeeelings* as opposed to what might make the most sense. It doesn't always work, I might add. Like every time I've ever played the lottery, for instance!

― Nude SPock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By the way, you ever see that movie "God Told Me To"? Sometimes, I guess, you get a different answer than you expected. ;)

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have that movie on laserdisc. I paid $5.00 for it, which is reasonable. It stars Tony LoBianco from "The Honeymoon Killers", and the dreadful Sandy Dennis. A friend actually just bought me Sandy Dennis's biography, which is a scream; I can't stand her. Who can?

― Sean, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All I heard about her was that she had a glass eye. And shilled for Wheat Thins.

(This is already my favorite thread mutation ever given where it began.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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